 | Will David Howe - English language - 1915 - 340 pages
...Paragraph. Tell something which happened to the boy. Tell how the woman saved the boy's life. 131. The Violet Down in a green and shady bed, A modest...head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair! It might have graced a rosy bower Instead of hiding there. * Yet... | |
 | San Jose State Normal School - 1916 - 56 pages
...murmurs, falling, rising, Music with the music sweetly harmonizing. THE VIOLET. TEACHER'S EDITION. Down in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew;...hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flow'r, Its colors bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was... | |
 | Mary Augusta Laselle - Democracy - 1918 - 412 pages
...all peacefulness and unity as well as all naturalness of effect. — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer. THE VIOLET Down in a green and shady bed A modest...As if to hide from view ; And yet it was a lovely flower, With colors bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bow'r, Instead of hiding there. Yet... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading." Isaac Watts [1674-1748] THE VIOLET DOWN in a green and shady bed A modest...was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. • i And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower,... | |
 | Louise Robinson - Readers - 1918 - 280 pages
...leaves Rose bush colors wild thorns fragrant buds beautiful THE MONTHS a. Make with your letters : "Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew...was bent, it hung its head As if to hide from view." b. Tell the story, "Buttercup Gold." c. Read the poem, "Discontent." d. Tell the story of "Proserpina."... | |
 | Mary Augusta Laselle - Democracy - 1918 - 410 pages
...hide from view; And yet it was a lovely flower, With colors bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bow'r, Instead of hiding there. Yet there it was content to bloom In modest tints arrayed, And there diffused a sweet perfume Within its silent shade ; Then let me to the valley go... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Louise Cutter Jones Hastings - 1919 - 232 pages
...the rest. — John Vance Cheney. Friday Godliness with contentment is great gain. — 1 Tim. vi. 6. THE VIOLET Down in a green and shady bed A modest...head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its color bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower Instead of hiding there. Yet... | |
 | William James O'Shea, Andrew E. Eichmann - Spellers - 1919 - 108 pages
...and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The Violet Down in a green and shady bed A modest...head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colors bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet... | |
 | Arthur Mee - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 690 pages
...teaching of such poems as "The Violet" i • as much needed in our own days as eighty years ago. J"~}owN in a green and shady bed, ^ A modest violet grew....head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, No colours bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower. Instead of hiding there. Yet... | |
 | Frederick John Gillman - Hymns, English - 1927 - 336 pages
...My Mary ") are known to most readers. " The Violet " is regarded as showing Jane at her best : — Down in a green and shady bed A modest violet grew,...head, As if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colour bright and fair ; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there. Yet... | |
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THE VIOLET. DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew ; Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view. 
